[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]eeu743 wrote:
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]eeu743 wrote:
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
I think we’re about to see some major violations come to the surface. He didn’t leave from the pressure of the shit we’ve heard about. Shit’s gonna get pretty heavy, but he won’t personally get in any trouble [unless it’s illegal in the eyes of the law], but the Buckeyes are fucked. Also, I don’t know if Meyer will jump right into this job [have to see how all this plays out], but anyone who thinks he’s done coaching has their head up their ass. His health wasn’t too much of a concern until Tim Tebow was wearing an NFL jersey.[/quote]
Ah, so that ER visit and his wife’s freaked out 911 call were part of his elaborate plan to resign a year later? Seems a bit overcomplicated to me.[/quote]
Since you’re so close to the program, you should know that there were whispers of his health problems 2 years before he finally resigned, but they didn’t seem to be that big of a deal while he was winning and coaching the most dominant college QB of all time.[/quote]
Rumors don’t really mean as much as facts. Unless there was an unthinkably elaborate coverup, his health issues didn’t affect him drastically until his first “resignation,” right after his wife found him in some half conscious state and he was rushed to the hospital. He took the job before Tebow was even a Senior in high school, and he coached for a year after he left. Your point may actually be valid, despite your misguided reasoning. I’m sure winning national championships is less stressful than losing multiple games in a season. I would imagine his problems gradually got worse while we were trying to defend the national championship, and, as the timing suggests, they came to a head after the bad loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship. He came back last year, had to endure the stress of a seriously disappointing season, and that, combined with his desire to spend more time with his family, pushed him to resign. If you think it’s only because he didn’t have Tebow, then why would he take any other job, especially Ohio State with all the controversy and issues they are having right now? The success he enjoyed in such a short time here is rare, and his chances of repeating is elsewhere, even at a big time program, would be slim. If his decision was so heavily influenced by not having Tebow, why would he ever coach again? Do you really think he’s banking on finding another Tebow? I doubt one exists anywhere.
All of that is speculation. What is fact is that he ended up in the emergency room because of these health problems that you seem to be discounting. Do you think he was doing that simply because he wanted to set up an excuse for leaving?[/quote]
First, someone needs a tall cool glass of calm down juice. Second, I already said we’re gonna have to wait and see how the OSU situation plays out. If there’s major violations [which I said I’m sure there will be] there’s no way he takes the gig. Third, those “rumors” surfaced at least 2 years before he resigned, and they turned out to be true. Pretty sure he passed out at a practice or some team function while Tebow was still there. So, if there were reports of his being ill 2 years before he resigned, and he resigned due to being ill, it’s safe to say that the “rumors” were “facts”.
Now that that’s out of the way, I do think he was using being ill as an excuse. He was doing college football shows all season, and his illness didn’t seem to bother him or keep him home as he said he’d be. I’m sure the guy is sick, but he will 100% coach again, he just didn’t want to do it at Florida anymore 'cause he was never gonna have it as good as he did during the Tebow years, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Coaches, athletes, administrators, etc… make bum excuses all of the time. [/quote]
Is it you? I’m perfectly fine. I don’t see how you could possibly think I was “not calm.” Because I don’t agree with you?
I’m not disputing any reports. He said himself that he had issues with his health before he even got to Florida. But they got more serious when we all heard about them, when he ended up in the hospital. Unless you’re suggesting that Urban Meyer had been passing out and being rushed to the ER for years without anybody hearing about it, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say his health severely deteriorated around the time that everybody says it did.
You’re right, he did work for ESPN this season, he didn’t spend all his time at home. Consider, though, that he did maybe one or two things a week for ESPN, and his only responsibilities were to be prepared for his appearance, and to talk about the topic. There’s no way those limited obligations come anywhere close to the extensive demands placed on him here. On top of all of his responsibilities to his current team (practice, planning, keeping up with his players and their disciplinary issues) he was also consistently recruiting top classes, meaning he was constantly calling highly sought after high school kids, meeting with them, and so on. I remember him talking about how coaching was his life practically 24/7. He’d be getting emails or phone calls in the middle of the night, and he’d have to deal with it, all the time. When he took the job with ESPN, he talked about how he was still going to be spending time with his family, but he didn’t want to just be doing absolutely nothing and he didn’t think his wife wanted him around 24/7 either.
